skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know ben0x539 can speak for himself, but you seem to accuse him of some form of rabid fundamentalism in order to get a half-baked point across. He didn't make any demands, he just voiced an opinion, which is totally fine, and your attempt of framing him as a dimwit devoid of a sense for irony offends me on his behalf.

Personally, I am not affected much by the use of rape in a joke, except that in general I find it cheap and unoriginal, therefore boring. If someone like Louis CK uses rape in one of his bits, it's funny because he is a comedic genius. Otherwise it's just thoughtless, or stupid even, and possibly brings up hurtful feelings in some people for the gain of nothing.
manishm

I am flying from Seattle, too. Would you like to meet before we fly there? Let me know. Thanks.
Comparison of Windows Phone to iOS
A free Heroku setup survived the front page of HN? Cool. Makes it all the more unacceptable when sites do go down under the traffic. Especially when they're just blog posts.
I can confirm that the new beta lets you select which directory/drive to install files on. It's a great change and let's me start filling up my 2 TB drive instead of my C drive!
You need to be building relationships with the people that could be beneficial to you from an early stage. AngelList can be a magical resources to validate your progress with investors and contacts. Keep it up to date on your progress, product updates and any traction.

If you're in a startup hub or use Skype to setup meetings with useful people. Not to ask for a referral or to ask for anything at all but just to get feedback on your startup, which really is to get them to put you on their map of companies. From there they'll probably follow you on Twitter or AngelList and will be able to watch your progress until you have something to ask from them.

When someone I don't really know asks for a referral to an investor I'll sometimes consider it but if it's someone I know well then I'll always refer them because I know how much they've achieved and thus how much they could achieve going on. Taking something from the idea stage to a working product to customers paying for it is an impressive achievement.

Also: In my opinion if someone has to read FAQ's to understand why you're different or what you do then something isn't clicking. This could be because you're doing your pitching online. When you can explain something to someone in person it can be 10x more impactful. Of course this doesn't matter to users.

I'm not sure that there's anyone I know that I would recommend you speak to other than a couple of possible competitors I know of.
The way I read this, it's about the CEO overriding the decision based on aesthetic reasons.

Personally I'd much rather log in with Google in this case, which means there would need to be three buttons: Twitter, Facebook, and Google. I'm sympathetic to the "nascar-ization" argument, but I also believe your customers are smart enough to process at least as many options as there are in their wallet for providing identity.

Perhaps the best solution is even more minimal: no login options at all! Let the browser auto-generate credentials and a unique password on your behalf, then automatically use that to log you in every time it sees that website.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/09/cutting-the-gordian...
This is blatantly stolen from http://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/# or is it just me?
First Android Application in Eclipse Hello world Android Example
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Nest Founder AMA on Reddit
Go to function definition, refacor/rename, find references, view object / class hierarchy, and so on. Why not have all this work 100% of the time?

Tooling makes your life so much easier. I don't understand why people would resist optional typing.
What bunkum.

OK, let me qualify: Vinyl (when played on commodity equipment) does, almost unavoidably, suffer mild (or worse) analog degradation. This is why (if you're of a certain age) you'll recall that for high-value purchases, we usually made cold replicas (uh, "tapes") to insure that the "master" got played as infrequently as possible.

CDs, however, not only degrade spontaneously (even when stored "properly"), but the degradation is pretty much "either-or" -- when they do degrade, usually the whole thing is pretty much unplayable (unless you're putting it in a very expensive player).

In any case, from my own extensive experience over the years, item for item, I've had quite a few vinyl records suffer "moderate" deterioration (aftr heavy playing), but virtually all were still playable to some degree. Really - unless you leave them in the back of your car for too long, that's usually the worst that happens.

Meanwhile, an annoyingly high % if CDs simply get scuffed, or are left out in the air too long -- and end up irreparably damaged and unplayable (at least on generic players).
Bolt - New, simple PHP content management (in beta)
Build Your Own Satellite (A Game from NASA)
I'm not sure if it is the artwork or the message. The previous promo art had tagline "Vacation rentals and reviews" which targets a specific audience, while second artwork just says "Dwellable" which is more mysterious and so you might have more people download it to check it out. Maybe it helps to have a broader message to get more people to try it, but expect to have a higher % of those curious windoshoppers try it and then shelve it/uninstall it.
Sure seems that way
Then apple would sue for copying their powermac ad campaign: "classified as a weapon" for its computing power.
You make a great point, and yet, given Napster and now Airtime, do we really want this guy trying to put humans safely on Mars?
The importance of cartography: a criticism on Apple Maps
CornellNYC’s Partnership with Dept. Commerce to Help Startups with Patents
While I didn't think exactly of Ion Storm, this photo did remind me a bit of the extravagance of that generation of "rock star" developers. Not saying that out of any malice or jealousy of Notch or Mojang - just being honest about my gut, knee-jerk response.
If I were them, and it would be affordable for them, I'd probably make it 15-20% early on, and 10-15% after a certain amount of sales.
Gravity: New funding to help personalize Internet
I think he's saying this design is nothing new. I don't know if the designers are knocking the design itself. When I first looked at it, I thought it looked familiar, too.
Calling females "girls" or otherwise infantalizing them was used to deny them property, bodily autonomy, voting rights and independent personhood. The abolition and marriage property rights movements went hand in hand.

I'm not arguing that they are equivalent, but both are part of a long history of violent oppression.
Great suggestions, I especially think the trial period idea is interesting. There's a few things that complicate it a bit though...this person will have to move to a different city to work, so the compensation will have to be higher to account for the uncertainty. Also, if it does work out, I don't want to the person to line something else up before the 6 months are out....I suppose there'll need to a "buffertime" between when a permanent job is offered and the end of the temporary phase.
Thanks for the remarks. What do you think about this way to capitalize "Bitcoin"? http://blog.oleganza.com/post/32746652183/how-to-capitalize-...
I have been working professionally for 10 years. In every single place I have worked, women are treated with equal respect.

Are there idiots out there? Yes.

But STOP BLOWING THIS SHIT OUT OF PROPORTION.

You're worse than the feminists.
An on-topic but not well-known fact: "The present currency of Ecuador is the United States dollar."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador
My random product was Office for Macintosh. I couldn't find it without resorting to search.

I also found the navigation confusing. Sometimes, the choices seem from different categories. An example: Microsoft Store, Windows Software, Office Software (all under the heading "Store"). For me, all three could lead to a place for buying Office. Two of them do; the term "Windows Software" seems exclusively reserved for OS versions. I think Excel, Word and the like are "Windows Software" (this is a tough one. "operating systems" probably is too technical. Maybe just "Windows"?)

Also: the Store (at http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/home?WT.mc_id=MS...) has a link to "other Microsoft Sites". One of these is Labeled "Microsoft Store". I would either remove t link, or change the text to "all Microsoft sites" (even though that likely is a lie)
Racism at a gaming company
The blurring had previously been achieved with css rules (easily disabled). Interestingly, now they've escalated to serving blurred images of paragraphs. Unless there's some serious black-hat SEO going on, they're now letting each question's single unblurred answer provide the entirety of the page's indexable content. They're willing to sacrifice organic search result placement for the blur-wall.
I totally get what you're saying, and I know any comparison of different groups with different troubles is tricky. They're not identical. But I'll stand behind the analogy.

Take a look at how 1950s professional men in Mad Men call their female coworkers "girls." You know what the legal context was? Women were literally a lower caste than men. Didn't have the same rights to divorce, didn't have the same rights to appear in court, didn't have the same rights to serve on juries, didn't have the same rights to take many respectable jobs, didn't have a right to equal pay for the jobs they could take, didn't have the right to stop their husbands from raping them, didn't have the same rights to inherit property. 50-year-old women were called "girls" by 30-year-old men because the law itself treated women like servants, wards, or objects rather than independent adults. And this was true throughout the United States when you, or your mother, or your grandmother was born.

So I do think it's similar to the kind of issues that black men have with "boy." But thanks for your thoughtful response, even if I disagree. I try not to rant about this stuff, and I hate that we have to cope with it all in order to have a simple conversation, but here we are. There's plenty of crappy history to go around.
Thank you for asking the clarifying question. The hiring supervisor is just looking for a straightforward implementation of the problem specification. He showed me the C code that is the example in his mind of a correct C program. He was presenting this problem over dinner at a summer mathematics program

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/

where some counselors for the program, and even some STUDENTS who were of elementary school age were able to provide solutions he deemed correct. (He accepted as correct one student's Python program, noting that he doesn't know the details of Python, and I think the student's Python program would actually only print from 1 to 99, because of how Python indexes. But that would still be considered very well done in the hiring screen.) One of the counselors reproduced his model C code on the spot, taking less than three minutes to write it down with pencil and paper.

AFTER EDIT: Responding to the second-submitted top-level comment,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603819

How could it be that one place is asking for that and turning him down with a working solution while another place is so desperate they just require a for-loop?

I think what is going on in the story I heard being contrary to the stories you hear is that there are several echelons of jobs, and several echelons of computer science departments. The young hacker I know best had a work-sample test for an in-person interview in which the problem specification was, "Write code to implement a four-function calculator." He didn't have any problem with that, and thought the problem was easy. He also has NOT completed a degree in computer science, although he was pursuing one before he entered full-time employment at a different startup with a different hiring process. He is not afraid of work-sample tests, not at all. But he would (currently) be screened out of contention by requirements to possess a degree, which he does not yet have.

Some other workplaces, perhaps places to get a steady job (and, crucially, visa status to remain in the United States), may get a lot of applicants who have actual earned CS degrees, but who have never acquired much independent coding ability. This is an empirical question, and the question I am trying to get a reality check on here. If you asked the EASY question asked by the hiring supervisor who told me his story to every CS grad who approaches you for a job, from any college and of any current visa status, are you sure that all without exception could pass that rather relaxed coding test?
Ask HN: Alternative to Internet Wayback Machine?
The Internet Wayback Machine seems to be down at the moment, and I was wondering if there are good alternatives in comparison.
If one data point matters: I occasionally rent vacation homes and am probably in the target demographic for that app. But I've frankly never heard of "Dwell" and certainly wouldn't recognize their brand artwork.

This is an app targetted at essentially the whole of the US upper middle class; is copying a niche magazine really going to matter much?
That's the way it seems to me as well. With the second one that has no tag line I'd think that Dwellable might be a competitor for Trulia, Zillow, or Redfin.
The Games tab is still ahead of the software tab, so that at least keeps Steam more games-focused than Xbox.
Looks like it. I didn't know it was mentioned elsewhere. Found it interesting regardless.
I'm not saying that tooling isn't nice. On the contrary. I'm asking why can't we have tooling even with dynamic types.
Naw, distressed wood and leather are fine, if they are thick to begin with .
It's not. HTC only pays $5 per phone for example. HTC pays up to $45 for other royalties (unrelated to Android), though, so it's not a big deal.
probably true if people equate static typing to Java then they assume it adds a lot of overhead.
>It's very telling that most people do not know this.

Welcome to the HN info bubble.
The beauty appears to be only skin deep. All the 1st level links I followed led to a totally different aesthetic.

As far as I can see, Microsoft.com is an improvement on a single page. I would be far more impressed if the changes extended across the site.
Sadly, the lock on your front door is most likely so easy to break, a thief wouldn't waste time trying to hack anything but the keyhole. I learned how to make and use a bump key from YouTube, practiced on my own front door and after a couple of hours could consistently spring the lock with a few whacks (seconds).

The weaker component is the (still available as a backup entry method) keyhole. A year ago, my neighbor locked herself out. I found out that she also had a Schlage lock and figured I'd try to help. After finding my disused bump key, I had sprung her lock after about twenty whacks. My total experience was two hours of practice three years ago. I don't consider myself to be uniquely skilled here.

Personally, I'd prefer a mechanism that would allow me to eliminate the key entirely. I'd rather live with the risk of battery drain/malfunction/phone loss.
You are entitled to your opinion but many developers disagree and want some more structure in the programming model. The very fact that many people are trying so hard to come up with some solution to JS means that there are significant problems worth fixing. If you don't see these problems or have them then that's great for you.
Many of these difficult legal questions could be avoided if Congress would simply pass legislation governing this method of investigation.

Right now, all over the country, the FBI obtains sealed (secret) court orders to obtain real time cell site data under a "hybrid theory" combining the Pen/Trap Statute (law for obtaining incoming and outgoing phone numbers) and Stored Communications Act (law for obtaining stored subscriber information from ISPs). However, Pen/Trap says location data cannot be obtained through its operation and the SCA only permits disclosure of "historical" not real time information.

The result is, the FBI obtains information to track individuals under a standard well below probable cause from a magistrate judge. The orders are sealed, and because the order applications are made ex parte, their legality has never been litigated in court or given meaningful judicial review.

Magistrate Judges Stephen Wm. Smith in Texas and Orenstein in New York were the first judges to question the government's theory and deny applications. An application Smith denied in 2010 is the subject of this appeal.

This is Smith's Congressional testimony from 2010 which gives a good (and readable) overview of the problems in the current system: http://or.fd.org/Sady/Judge%20Smith%20testimony.pdf

And here is a law review article that deals with highly convoluted legal issues: http://www.arizonalawreview.org/pdf/53-2/53arizlrev663.pdf
>they are frequently lost by their owners whenever the people who own the trademarks go after them //

People get scared by legal threats from massive corporations - that doesn't mean that proper legal process requires [or should require] that such domains are handed over.
Wow, they dramatically simplified the login form. Here's what I get at the moment:

http://i.imgur.com/LExHd.png
I think the ratio expressions are slightly off. Using the queries from the article can result in negative ratios, which shouldn't be possible if we're measuring the percent of accesses that hit the buffer. Each access is either a cache hit or a read, not both. So instead of subtracting in the numerator, they should be added in the denominator:

SELECT
sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read,
sum(heap_blks_hit) as heap_hit,
sum(heap_blks_hit) / (sum(heap_blks_hit) + sum(heap_blks_read)) as ratio
FROM
pg_statio_user_tables;
Yea :) Though keeping wordpress alive is hard. That's why we moved to WPEngine for blog hosting instead of doing it ourselves.
Yeah, I think it might be a programming-language cultural thing. Most refactoring tools are written for Java and C#, so the people with experience writing refactoring tools have worked out how to solve the problems when they have certain assurances. But it really should be possible to write usable refactoring tools for ruby and python and javascript - you'll have to do a little more work to figure out name collisions between variables and methods and there's going to be ambiguous metaprogramming stuff like using strings to lookup instance variables, but having good tooling in the cases where you weren't using metaprogramming might encourage programmers to use a more concrete coding style, and that's probably a good thing. (Java has the same problems when you use a lot of reflection. So people don't use much reflection!)
" As long as you have a secondary option for opening the door, it's a great product."

I can't tell if that is sarcasm?
Dispelling the Myth of Native UI
New releases are listed in chronological order. So a dump of of non-game software would, naturally, push games down the queue.
I was in a bit of a rush so I didn't reply properly earlier.

What I meant to say is that it isn't the men who are responsible for the lack of women enrolling in comp sci. Everywhere young girls turn, they are told to be pretty, nurturing and sexist (yes, sexist.) Including if not exclusively from their mothers and aunts. They are taught that their value comes from their relationship with a man. So when I say it isn't men, I mean it's the family, extended family and the community which reinforce gender stereotypes.

I would hope that an engineer mindset would use the "5 why" rule instead of the "DUHH BLAME THE IDIOT"
Is Growth Hacking == Lean Marketing?
I think the articles were about Microsoft making more money(in total) on patent licenses on Android phones rather than the Windows Phone nascent platform.
Nokia's "all-in" strategy with WP, means it's "bye-bye Nokia" if Microsoft makes their own phone, though. The others can and will still rely on Android for the bulk of their sales anyway. What will Nokia rely on? Nothing.
That aren't too many places that accept the US dollar directly outside of the America's. In most places in Europe and Asia you'll be hard pressed to pay with the US Dollar. In major tourist cities, maybe ... but outside of that (and even inside) you're best bet for paying will be to go to a currency exchange and trade.

15+ countries so far and none accept the US Dollar directly.
Inept designer here too. It's really awesome to see a success story like this, it gives me hope
Passive Income Progress Report 2012-10: Stagnation
If Microsoft is not categorically denying this rumor by the end of the week, then it's true. It might still be true if they give some vague PR statement that sort of says they are not making a phone yet, but not really.

I wonder how this rumor will hit their partners, since even most of their PC partners didn't know about the Surface tablets before they announced it.
Plasma breakdown. The voltage across the gas eventually accelerates electrons fast enough that they can ionize atoms when they collide, and an avalanche occurs creating a plasma and light. Same effect as a neon lamp
Christopher Hancock's thesis is pretty good; flogo II plays around with this feature called "live text" where it embeds code exucution visualizations directly in the text of the code. I still haven't seen anyone pull that off again.
It is just much more difficult to have tooling since the tools cannot know for sure what the program is doing (and neither can another human looking at it).
startups are like cancers, remember? they have to grow because they have to grow.
It's not the same brand as open source "free", but access to the Google apps is indeed free.
It's a site that if you go to it you see only a login page allowing either Facebook or Twitter sign in, with no explanation of what it is or why you would want to give your Facebook or Twitter passwords to them or what they might do with them. (Yes, I understand how it really works but I am presenting how it looks to normal people.)

http://www.quora.com/

If you manage to find pages they expose to google to capture searches for information, you find it is like Yahoo Answers, except the answers are all blurred unless you agree to sign in and be tracked.

Not surprisingly, this user-hostile abomination of usability has commercially failed. For some bizarre reason the designer who created this nonsense is described as a usability design genius in the referenced article when it is clear from even a moment's glance at the site's usability that its designers are not fit to design a hole in the ground for tossing refuse.
Samsung is also producing Windows Phone 8 devices. Time will tell how committed they are to the platform, but I believe that a very large portion of WP7 devices were from Samsung.
Combine that with the assumption that the average consumer probably used a date of some significance for their 4-digit code and in the US you can guess that 0 or 1 was first, 0, 1, 2 or 3 was the third position, leaving you only to guess the second and fourth position.
Grok was a favorite word in the .com collapse days with marketing types. Just saying.
One of the things I've been surprised by is the lack of attention given to Namecoin relative to the attention Bitcoin's gotten. Namecoin's .bit addresses are currently incredibly cheap relative to normal domain names. Plus, since Namecoin addresses are just JSON, all sorts of small bits of data can be securely stored by the owner of an address.
The company is Kixeye.
Is joining a niche accelerator right for your startup?